Slack Bot

[teampolyglot]

In last few commits, I have implemented a basic Slack bot functionality. This is how it works:

• Users can add the bot to their workspace by going to https://learnawesome.org/join_slack

• This slack app needs the following Oauth permission scopes: chat:write, chat:write.public, commands

• Once the permission is granted, the access token is stored in SlackAuthorization table.

• This bot currently adds two slash commands: /startlearning [topic] and /stoplearning [topic]. Using these commands, slack teams' channels can subscribe/unsubscribe to topics. These subscriptions are kept in SlackSubscription table which has a schema (slack_authorization_id, channel_id, topic_id)

• Whenever a new item is created, all such channels are notified by SlackSubscriptionNotifyJob.

• This is different from SlackNotifyJob which is used only in our own slack to post items from ALL topics to the #new-items channel. BTW, we also post a random topic to our #general channel in SocialMediaUpdatesJob every day at 13:00 UTC.

Enhancement ideas

• Post daily updates to slack subscriptions so that they don't have to wait till a new item gets added
• Enable conversations and on-demand resources

[teampolyglot]

I've implemented DailySlackAlertJob. Keeping it open for future ideas about conversations and more bot features.

[Sanket-Ghosh]

Hi. I am new to Open Source Contribution. I would Like to Know what is the issue about? Should i have to add functionality to the bot or Should I have to create a Bot from Scratch. Please Help!

[nileshtrivedi]

Hi @Sanket-Ghosh

Sure. Can you join the Slack and ping in the #meta channel? You can find the link here: https://learnawesome.org/join_slack

[bilalshaikh292]

hey, can I work on this project